Qwen3.8 Max Prime: API pricing, context window and capabilities

Prices from official vendor price lists · October 2026

Qwen3.8 Max Prime costs $3.36 per 1M input tokens and $10.08 per 1M output tokens, with a 1M context window. Top of the Alibaba (Qwen) range and dearer than 85% of this rating.

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Capabilities
Text & chatReasoningLong context 1M+
API $/1M (in / out)
$3.36 / $10.08
Context window
1M tokens
Price / mo
API only
OverviewReviews

Qwen3.8 Max Prime is an AI model from Alibaba (Qwen), priced at $3.36 input and $10.08 output per 1M tokens. That places it in the frontier tier of this rating — dearer than 85% of the 205 priced models listed.

It holds 1M tokens in a single conversation, enough for a full codebase or a contract bundle in one pass. Capabilities recorded in this rating: text & chat, reasoning, long context 1M+, multilingual, proprietary API. Access is through the API rather than a consumer subscription.

API price$3.36 / $10.08per 1M tokens, in / out
Context1M tokenstokens per conversation
VendorAlibaba (Qwen)all models from this vendor
TierFrontierdearer than 85% of models

Cost calculator

Standard$8.40AED 31 per month
With batch −50%$4.20AED 15 per month
With caching on input$7.64AED 28 per month
Standard$84.00AED 308 per month
With batch −50%$42.00AED 154 per month
With caching on input$76.44AED 281 per month
Standard$420AED 1,542 per month
With batch −50%$210AED 771 per month
With caching on input$382AED 1,404 per month
Standard$1,680AED 6,170 per month
With batch −50%$840AED 3,085 per month
With caching on input$1,529AED 5,615 per month

Assumes a 1:3 input-to-output ratio, which is typical for chat and generation. Dirham figures use 3.6725 per dollar. Batch and caching discounts apply where the vendor offers them.

Compared with alternatives

How Qwen3.8 Max Prime sits against its neighbours in this rating. Tap a card to open that model.

GPT-6.1 Sol
Cheaper
OpenAI
$2 / $101.05M tokens
Claude Sonnet 5
Closest match
Anthropic
$2 / $101M tokens
GPT-5.6 Terra
Step up
OpenAI
$2 / $121.05M tokens

Good and poor fit

Good fit
  • Multi-step analysis, planning and code review, where the first plausible answer is often wrong.
  • Whole codebases, contract bundles and long transcripts in a single pass.
  • General text generation and conversation across languages.
Poor fit
  • Anything requiring image input — this model does not accept it.
  • Integrations that depend on structured function calls.

Related filters

Text & chat234 models for text generation and chat
Reasoning175 models that think before answering
Long context 1M+88 models holding 1M tokens or more
Proprietary API151 closed-weight, API-only models
Alibaba (Qwen)40 models from this vendor
All 245 modelsThe full rating with filters and prices

Frequently asked questions

How much does Qwen3.8 Max Prime cost?

$3.36 / $10.08 per 1M tokens, input and output. In dirhams that is roughly AED 12.34 per 1M input tokens. Batch processing halves it where the vendor offers it.

What is the context window of Qwen3.8 Max Prime?

1M tokens in a single conversation.

What can Qwen3.8 Max Prime do?

In this rating it is recorded with: text & chat, reasoning, long context 1M+, multilingual, proprietary API.

Is Qwen3.8 Max Prime a good choice?

It depends on the job. See the good-fit and poor-fit lists above, and compare against the neighbouring models before committing.

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